AfPak

Dispatches from AfPak: Death Isn’t Tragic, It’s Neutral

by Joshua Foust

Naheed Mustafa is a Canadian freelance broadcast and print journalist. She’s currently on a reporting trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan and will be posting dispatches from her trip. “They believe killing ordinary people is mubah.” The statement came from a Kandahari veteran of the 80s Jihad. I was sitting with him in his house in [...]

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Dispatches from AfPak: A Tale of Two Logars and the Trip that Wasn’t

by Joshua Foust

Naheed Mustafa is a Canadian freelance broadcast and print journalist. She’s currently on a reporting trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan and will be posting dispatches from her trip. I was supposed to be in Logar. Instead I’m sitting in my room at the Park Palace Guesthouse thinking about public relations. I was looking for a [...]

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Dispatches from AfPak: Notes from a Rally

by Joshua Foust

Naheed Mustafa is a Canadian freelance broadcast and print journalist. She’s currently on a reporting trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan and will be posting dispatches from her trip. ISLAMABAD – “I would rather they kill him. Just take him into the street, fake a police encounter, and shoot him like a dog. At least then [...]

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Dispatches from AfPak: How Exciting!

by Joshua Foust

Naheed Mustafa is a Canadian freelance broadcast and print journalist. She’s currently on a reporting trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan and will be posting dispatches from her trip. ISLAMABAD – In 2008, just before my first trip to Afghanistan, I spoke to a fixer who came highly recommended. He promised me all kinds of adventures: [...]

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